ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan opposed the legislation and said the “thieves” should not be allowed to sell the assets, a day after the federal cabinet approved an ordinance pertaining to the sale of national assets in an effort to overcome the economic crisis the country is currently experiencing.
“How can imported government brought to power through US conspiracy, led by ‘crime minister’ whose family along with Zardari have volumes written on their corruption, be trusted with the sale of national assets and that too by bypassing all procedural and legal checks,” the former prime minister wrote on his Twitter account.
These individuals have been pillaging Pakistan for the past 30 years, and they are now in charge of the current economic collapse. Never should we permit these thieves to sell our national assets in the cunning way they are attempting. The PTI chief continued, “The nation would never trust them with our national assets.
The former prime minister made his comments a day after the federal cabinet approved a law to sell government-owned power plants and stakes in oil and gas companies to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other nations.
The law was proposed by the Cabinet Committee on Inter-Governmental Commercial Transactions.The sale of assets and stock of state-owned corporations to foreign nations will not be subject to court review under the ordinance.
